Avith Ortega is the name of the music project where I first started to release music, experimenting and combining styles of Trip Hop, Ambient, Industrial and Dark Ambient genres.

The first album “The Spill” was released on 2012, with the intention of producing songs that explored a variety of moods and atmospheres that go from soft and eerie to harsh and dark with emphasis in emotion, taking inspiration from psychological survival horror games and movies, as well as some TripHop and ambient artists.

Some of the main influences are artists and groups like Akira Yamaoka, Massive Attack, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, and horror videogame soundtracks. This also lead to influence the way the albums are made, so you can expect a variety of sounds, styles, themes and emotions in every album that works as a soundtrack but that also can be enjoyed as an independent music album.

I started making this music because back in 2011 I was searching for more music that resembled the soundtracks of the Silent Hill series, and I stumbled upon some people that were trying this, but they sounded very amateur to me, and sometimes they were just simply copy-and-pasting the same sounds and melodies from the music of the games, or they just focused on one side of the soundtrack’s sound palette (mainly on the rock, soft/light ambient and triphop songs). This frustrated me a little because I wanted to hear an actual continuation of the SH soundtracks, you know, not only the soft ambient pieces, I ALSO wanted to hear the dark triphop songs, the DARK ambient with the same uncanny nature of the games, the industrial sounds that actually sounded like Final boss themes, the melancholic piano pieces, and above all of that, using new and original sounds never heard before with completely new melodies… something fresh. This is what really led me to make it by myself, just to be able to hear more music with all this characteristics and sounds.

There is a playlist where music of similar styles like the SH soundtracks have been gathered together, you can check it out here: